"It is not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

"I do not wish to be regarded as a member of any society which I have not joined."

"Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him with their petty questions, and endeavor to pry into his private affairs. Commonly, if you are an honest man, they will want to know what you are doing in thei…"

"We are always getting ready to live, but never living."

"Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering for a great while at the eaves of an old church."